The deep friendship between Maria and her Jewish friend Lea gradually starts to break as Maria's husband Hans goes from being a young adventurer to a high ranking SS officer. But on that infamous first day of the Jewish deportation in Munich, Maria comes to a momentous decision which proves what friendship really means to her. She takes on Lea's child Charlotte to save her from being deported to the concentration camp, thereby risking her own life and ultimately losing Hans. Maria's story shows that, in the end, friendship can triumph over terror and death. Inspired by the life of Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria and former President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

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